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Front-end focused engineer.

4 things to do after Create-React-App

Apr 7, 20215 min read

You are starting a new front-end application and you've chosen React. Great! What next? Here is a list of things that I do after I create a new React application. There may be more that you choose to do, or maybe less. This is just what I choose to d...

Recursive lists in React using Context

Apr 2, 20213 min read

Recently I have been working a lot with recursive trees and displaying them in React. While working with them I came up with a pattern that I like, and that I want to share with those that run into this pattern. They can overcome this hurdle in a way...

How to make big projects developable

Mar 18, 20215 min read

I have had the opportunity lately of being a contributor on a lot of projects at my current place of employment. I have run into snags trying to get codebases running, connecting to databases, testing things locally, etc... Running into this problem ...

Normalizing Failure

Dec 3, 20203 min read

This isn't so much an informative or persuasive piece, but one that maybe is thought-provoking, and maybe even a rhetorical question in short essay form. My Experience with Failure I may experience failure a bit more harshly than others, but I would ...

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